Sustainability Lead - Corporate Real Estate London, England
Job description
The opportunity
Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria below, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. Should you require any adjustments to assist during the application/hiring process please advise us.
For over 30 years, its growth has been fuelled by an adventurous spirit and the relentless pursuit of a better way. Today, the company employs over 7,500 people across four global hubs in Europe, Middle East, Americas, and Asia Pacific.
We are a carbon-neutral, purpose-led organisation that places diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. Our global responsible business practice group comprising 170+ people bring themselves to work each day to make a difference. To create a connected and resilient world, shaping cities and building thriving communities, and helping our clients realise ambitions beyond delivery.
You will be responsible for leading and managing responsible business (RB) activities within the Mace consult corporate real estate (CRE) sector. This is a leadership role working with ambitious and outcomes-focused clients and colleagues to deliver purpose-led impacts.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing service excellence and client satisfaction, delivering purpose-led and measurable outcomes for clients, with a particular focus on climate change, social value, and biodiversity
- Ensuring work winning and bid/no-bid decision-making in collaboration with other sector and practice group stakeholders
- Driving growth within the sector to meet commercial revenue targets aligned to the annual business plan, requiring the translation of business plan objectives into deliverable strategies, leading to a profitable and sustainable business for Mace in this sector.
- Overseeing and having awareness of the financial performance of RB projects and services in the sector, ensuring commercial performance is in line with revenue, margin and utilisation targets.
- Developing the industry thought leadership, hosting planned events and business-to-business networking forum(s) to support new business enquiries.
- Maintaining and actively engaging in professional industry-wide network.
- Directing workforce planning and ensuring projects are suitably resourced with the necessary competencies, alongside forward planning and proactive recruitment to support sector pipeline and growth.
About you
We are seeking someone with demonstrable experience driving Sustainability across the Corporate Real Estate markets. You have a passion for sustainability and social value, and the ambition and drive to scale up the industry-leading responsible business outcomes Mace deliver for our CRE clients. You are someone who:
- Is Creative – Pursues a better way and responds to new and changing market demands and opportunities.
- Is a Strong and Engaging Communicator - articulate and open, and comfortable when representing Mace and our clients in a public forum.
- Thinks Big – can view things from different perspectives, thinks strategically, simplifies concepts to solve or communicate complex problems.
- Drives Change – through your ability to lead others and adopt different solutions, act decisively with a passion to achieve results.
- Develops Others – by building relationships and sharing knowledge through collaboration, as well as upskilling and creating opportunity for colleagues and clients.
- Collaborates - is a strong leader, where integrity and motivational skills are essential, recognising that this is an industry and discipline in which collaborative arrangements and the co-location of project teams is the preferred way of working.
- Is Commercially Astute – familiar with all stakeholders and their needs in the sector, and aware of all sustainability and social value challenges and opportunities.
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